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Show I CHURCH AND THE LABORER. I Coates Scores Ministerial Alliance as I Antagonists and Soundly Hissed. Denver, April 7. Lieutenant Gover- ;, nor uavia J. coaies, wno is aiso eauor I of a labor paper and a leading labor s organizer in Colorado, had a wordy tilt with the ministerial alliance of Denver ; at a meeting held today. Mr. Coates had been invited to address the min- i iMers. and chose for the subject of his ; talk -The Working Man and the ! 1 :iiirch. He had not proceeded far j it n it dawned upon the ministers mat 1 iiov were being severely criticised ; ind roughly abused, they asserted, and I then thev began to hiss and cry, "No, i rio; sit down, etc." I Mr. coates stopped his lecture and i Marted to leave the house, but when assured 'hat he would be heard with- : o n further interruption he continued, t His argument was that the ministers s were not as a body friendly to labor, ! b lit fought the battles of the eorpora- f tarns. He said that the ministers f should aid working men to live instead i .h-voting their energies towards his ; M irjtual welfare after death. He called ' t:e m. 'hirelings of the money power." i The church has not supported the la-, i boring man in the momentous questions ques-tions which have from time ta time aiii.n" said Mr. Coates. "Had the j - 'irnvli fulfilled its duties as set tortn lv the Carpenter of Xazareth there ".I l I have been no ned of the labor i i" eaiiizations: if the church had only ii.:iic it; duty, the laboring man would ; liave received his protection from the hiiich and he would have now enter-uciicl enter-uciicl a reeling of fellowship ' for the 'i ii-' h. It refuses and has always re-fi.'d re-fi.'d to support the laborer. The sup-I sup-I ' Mois of the church are the men who rubbing the laboring man of their i i'viiis: while belonging to and support-i support-i mib the church they at the same time i :: oppressing the laboring man. And 1 m ant to say to you. my dear friends. ! '!'. vu expect the laboring man to go j b Jiiii in band with the church when it i is -iiding and abetting the very men f vi,,, i,v their methods are filling the j i 1 "is, ns. ihe hurdy-.tiurdy houses and j I mo ia Ms with the masses of the peo- i' No. no, no:" j |